Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 17, 2010

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    DevXIII  over 14 years ago

    That’s the oldest joke in the book..

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    freeholder1  over 14 years ago

    Does have a surprisingly long life.

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    steverinoCT  over 14 years ago

    That’s okay– I don’t smoke.

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    freeholder1  over 14 years ago

    The folks at the all-you-can-eat fried couch potato bar and grill will roll over in their graves when they hear this.

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    Hawthorne  over 14 years ago

    And they had to do it in Britain because they’ll NEVER get the funding here.

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    dfowensby  over 14 years ago

    New England, Britain, I guess it’s about the same…heh

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    Kosher71  over 14 years ago

    Here’s to a short , but happy life .

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    Lyons Group, Inc.  over 14 years ago

    @steverino: I stopped at the age of 12.

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    GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago

    I’m with you, Jim!

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    dsom8  over 14 years ago

    If it’s so obvious, why is it such a popular lifestyle? The cynicism may be misplaced.

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    Trebor39  over 14 years ago

    Used to be that was the way to live.

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    Justice22  over 14 years ago

    Eddie is a contradiction to the Brit’s findings.

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    Wildmustang1262  over 14 years ago

    Good luck for another 21 years!

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    Wiley creator over 14 years ago

    In case it wasn’t clear as intimated in the cartoon, this was an actual news report from about a month ago.

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    ububobu  over 14 years ago

    After smoking for 25 years (3 packs a day) I quit because cigarettes went up to ¢50 per pack. Wish someone would pay me for my 25 year study. I guess capitalism is it’s own reward.

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    Destiny23  over 14 years ago

    I’ve heard anecdotal evidence that getting shot in the head can shorten your life too. I wonder how many millions of tax dollars it’ll take to study that for a couple of decades to prove it!

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    JanLC  over 14 years ago

    plus4, you’re right. I can think of several such studies about topics that most of us wouldn’t think twice about.

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    treered  over 14 years ago

    so the studies that said wine is good for you or chocolate is good for you or… were funded by wine makers, chocolate makers… who’d ‘ve thought…

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    poohbear8192  over 14 years ago

    Sixty year study shows that cartoon cats can sleep sitting up.

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    peter0423  over 14 years ago

    From an old, old “Frank and Ernest” strip:

    “A recently-completed $5 million government study shows that you can make pretty good money from a $5 million government study!”

    (I’m paraphrasing a bit – it’s got to be almost 40 years now.)

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    lazygrazer  over 14 years ago

    I do all but one of those things so I should be ok.

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    ronaldmundy  over 14 years ago

    silence woke the cat?

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    freeholder1  over 14 years ago

    Cap’n’s cat ronald. Silence is a rare thing for him.

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    vexatron1984  over 14 years ago

    I read an article like that not long ago. A study showing that kids are obese through a lack of exercise and eating between meals too much. Aren’t you thrilled with what our tax money goes to?

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    aerwalt  over 14 years ago

    Can you imagine the HOO-HAH if the opposite results were reported?

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    DarthSequitur  over 14 years ago

    Actually, Eddie does only two of the four: smoking and drinking. I’d like to see you wrestle lahbstah traps out of the water regularly, and while we don’t see him eat much, his diet (as a generic fisherman) is probably high in fish which is “reported” to be good for heart health. And BTW, I take second to none in my disdain for the Nutrition Nazis.

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    WyattMute  over 14 years ago

    What I find surprising is that if you do all of those bad things it only shortens your life by an average of 12 years. Granted that’s a lot of time, but if the life-expectancy in the UK is something like 75 years old you’d still live to be 63….Then again, at my age it’s easy to say I’d rather life fast and die young. I’m sure when I’m 62 I really won’t feel like dying yet…

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    latenightmusings  over 14 years ago

    http://latenightmusings.com/2010/05/14/little-orphan-annie–rip.aspx

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    NoBrandName  over 14 years ago

    plus4 is NOT right, because that is NOT science.

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    W6BXQ, John  over 14 years ago

    I was smoking a pack and a half of unfiltered Pall Mall’s a day when I quit in June of 1968. I have never regretted it.

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    lindz.coop Premium Member over 14 years ago

    And if it ain’t researched, it ain’t true! But in this country, why bother – they can’t afford to teach science in schools and nobody believes any of the findings anyway.

    Hey Wyatt – I’m 62 and looking forward to many more years of dancing – which I will do til I drop.

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    paul4long  over 14 years ago

    Last nooz tube seen was 6/09/08.

    History is being made

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    vldazzle  over 14 years ago

    I’m 72 and still enjoying pizza and chocolate and gin too- but it ia all about moderation. I do an hour of mostly free weights (5-15#) every other day and I hope to continue to keep myself on track. I’m always looking for activities for the alternate days ;-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~and yes, the “studies” we hear on the news are usually just as lame as that one, while they still want more taxes :-(

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    freeholder1  over 14 years ago

    Moderation must be in the state of Bliss. Everyone says we need to be in it.

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    bmonk  over 14 years ago

    If we must exercise moderation in all things, does that apply to moderation also?

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    howie448  over 14 years ago

    WELLLL!! DUUUUU!!

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    michonasmith Premium Member over 14 years ago

    Right up there with the $2 million study a couple of years ago that came to the conclusion there was a link between drugs and crime.

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